Previous posts for August 1st are here: Lionel Bart (2019) and (2020), and Jerry Garcia; Benedetto Marcello (2021)
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Francis Scott Key (1 August 1779 – 11 January 1843) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, who is best known for writing the lyrics for the American national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner."
Play Ball!
If the lawyer named Francis Scott Key
Returned to the living, would he
Insist that subpoenas
Be sent to arenas
Who are using his lyrics for free?
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O Say, Can You Sing?
Although the poem has four stanzas, only the first is commonly sung today. -- Wikipedia, s.v. "The Star-Spangled Banner"
When we strain to sing “land of the free”
On that curséd high F or high G,
It gets even worse
If you sing every verse
That was written by Francis Scott Key.
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